A car bomb went off on a busy street in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday, a police officer said, while a Reuters witness said the blast was followed by big clouds of smoke visible in sky.
The bomb exploded as the car was driving in the busy Maka al Mukaram road, the police officer told Reuters. “It is a busy area. We do not yet know the figure of casualties,” the police officer, Major Hussein Nur, said.
A Reuter’s reporter at the scene of the blast counted four bodies lying on the ground. Photographs taken by Reuters showed three destroyed cars on the road, with two still burning. It was not clear who was responsible for the blast.
A car bomb explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Sunday killed six and wounded 20 others and the death toll was likely to rise, a police officer said. “So far we know civilians died and 20 others were injured. They were mostly pedestrians while others were shopping,” the police officer said.
“Death toll may rise. Most of the injured ones are very serious.”
– By REUTERS
